Seth J. Putterman | |
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Born | New York City, New York, USA | December 18, 1945
Nationality | American |
Education | Cooper Union California Institute of Technology Rockefeller University |
Known for | Sonoluminescence |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles |
Thesis | Towards a Macroscopic Theory of Superfluids (1970) |
Doctoral advisor | George Uhlenbeck |
Website | acoustics-research |
Seth J. Putterman (born December 18, 1945) is an American physicist. He is known to have an eclectic approach to research topics that broadly revolves around energy-focusing phenomena in nonlinear, continuous systems, with particular interest in turbulence, sonoluminescence,[1] sonofusion and pyrofusion.[2][3]